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Downtown


Appears on Heartattack and Vine


Version 1 | Lyrics


Version 1

Am                                E 
Red Pants and the Sugarman in the Temple Street gloom 
Am                         E 
Drinkin' Chivas Regal in a four dollar room 
      Am                       E
 Just another dead soldier in a powder blue night 
Am                       E 
Sugarman says baby, everything's alright 
			
      Am  D     Am   D   E7 
Goin' downtown, down downtown 
      Am   D   E7 
Goin' down downtown 
			
Montclaire de Havelin doin' the St. Vitus dance 
Lookin' for someone to chop the lumber in his pants 
How am I gonna unload all of this ice and all this mink 
All the traffic in the street, but it's so hard to think 
			
Goin' downtown, down downtown 
Goin' down downtown 
			
Frankie's wearin' lipstick, Pierre Cardin 
I swear to God I seen him holdin' hands with Jimmy Bond 
Sally's high on crank and hungry for some sweets 
Fem in the sheets but she's butch in the streets 
			
Goin' downtown, down downtown 
Goin' down downtown 
			
It's the cool of the evening, the sun's goin' down 
I want to hold you in my arms, I want to push you around 
I wanna break your bottle and spill out all your charms 
Come on baby, we'll set off all the burglar alarms 
			
Goin' downtown, down downtown 
Goin' down downtown 
			
Red Pants and the Sugarman in the Temple Street gloom 
Are drinkin' Chivas Regal in a four dollar room 
Just another dead soldier in a powder blue night 
Red Pants says to Sugarman, said everything's alright 
			
Goin' downtown, down downtown 
Goin' down downtown 

Lyrics

Red pants and the sugarman in the temple street gloom,

drinkin' chivas regal in a four dollar room,
just another dead soldier in a powder blue night,
sugarman says baby everything's alright,
goin' downtown down downtown.

Montclaire de havelin doin' the st. vitus dance,
lookin' for someone to chop the lumber in his pants,
how am i gonna unload all of this ice and all this mink,
all the traffic in the street but it's so hard to think,
goin' downtown down downtown.

Frankie's wearin' lipstick pierre cardin,
i swear to god i seen him holdin' hands with jimmy bond,
sally's high on crank and hungry for some sweets,
she's fem in the sheets but she's butch in the streets,
goin' downtown down downtown.

It's the cool of the evening the sun's goin' down,
i want to hold you in my arms i want to push you around,
i want to break your bottle and spill out all your charms,
come on baby we'll set off all the burglar alarms,
goin' downtown down downtown.

Red pants and the sugarman in the temple street gloom,
drinkin' chivas regal in a four dollar room,
just another dead soldier in a powder blue night,
red pants turns to sugarman and says everything's alright,
goin' downtown down downtown.

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